Sports reporter endures epic nightmare trip to cover Winnipeg Jets

Twitter user Ian Gollert tweeted this image at Mike Harrington during his epic journey to Winnipeg for a Jets-Sabres hockey game. Harrington's face replaces Steve Martin on a poster for the movie Planes, Trains and Automobiles, starring John Candy.

His nightmare began innocently enough at 8:52 a.m. on Dec. 30 with a tweet, complete with the obligatory weather complaint, about the fact that he was travelling to Winnipeg for the New Year’s Eve Jets-Sabres game:

Follow @BuffNewsVogl for today’s #Sabres practice updates. I’m making jaunt to Winnipeg, where today’s HIGH temp will be -17F. Yep.

But instead of spending the night in Chicago, he was told he’d have to fly to Vancouver that night in order to catch a morning flight to Winnipeg for the New Year’s Eve game — no flights out of O’Hare Airport were going to get him to the ‘Peg in time.

Of course, the flight to Vancouver was delayed 90 minutes when a passenger had to be removed after he vomited on two others in first class. His removal necessitated a half-hour search for his luggage, as well. Here’s Harrington’s 3:21 a.m. tweet: